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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/daniel-norris-looking-to-find-footing-in-tigers-bullpen
Back in familiar environs, Norris out to find results in 'pen.
After 2 solid starts following return to Detroit, lefty trying to get into relief groove.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/giants-...914#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=662914
Boxscore.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/8...-rodon-drew-hutchison-evan-longoria-javy-baez
Giants 3 - Tigers 1: A classic 2022 performance from the home team.
Drew Hutchison and the bullpen were effective again, but against Carlos Rod?n, the offense was pretty helpless.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...se-lackluster-loss-detroit-tigers/7873074001/
'You've got to give yourself a chance': Tigers' late rally dies too soon vs. Giants.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...s-game-recap-san-francisco-giants/7879839001/
Detroit Tigers leave the bases loaded in ninth inning of 3-1 loss to San Francisco Giants.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/08/carlos-rodon-strikes-out-10-as-giants-top-tigers.html
Rodon strikes out 10 as Giants top Tigers.
Mlive
 
August 24 in Tigers and mlb history:

1887: Hall of Famer Harry Hooper was born in Bell Station, CA.
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1904: In Chicago, Christy Mathewson blanks the Cubs on three hits and the Giants defeat Buttons Briggs, 3 - 0. The second game is called after 10 innings with the score 2 - 2. Chicago fans show their feelings towards the Giants by tossing bottles onto the field. RF George Browne is hit on the leg and is almost hit in the head while chasing a fly ball. John McGraw tells ump Bob Emslie that he will not allow his team to continue play until all the broken glass is cleared, and by the time that occurs it is too dark to continue play.

1904: The Highlanders' Willie Keeler collects two home runs against the St. Louis Browns in a 9 - 1 win at New York. Both drives are inside-the-park.

1905: The Detroit Tigers purchased Ty Cobb from Augusta (South Atlantic).
In less than a week, Ty Cobb will begin his ascent on the Major Leagues Baseball records book that ends after 24 seasons and Cobb holding over 90 Major League records with many still standing today.

1905: The Giants win their 12th straight over the Reds, as Christy Mathewson wins easily, 8 - 0. Matty allows two scratch hits. The second game is called on account of darkness, 6 - 6, after nine innings.

1909: At Detroit, A's catcher Paddy Livingston throws out Ty Cobb trying to steal third base during an intentional walk to Sam Crawford. Cobb intentional spikes 3B Frank Baker on his bare hand during the play, prompting howls of protest from the Athletics. The Tigers win, 7 - 6, and A's manager Connie Mack will complain to Ban Johnson about Cobb's dirty play. Cobb gets a warning from the American League president.
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1910: Atop the Washington Monument, White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh throws 23 balls before C Billy Sullivan snares one, then catches two more, 555 feet below. It duplicates Gabby Street's catch of August 21, 1908. The estimated speed of the ball is 161 feet per second. On the field Walsh will be 18-20 despite a league-leading 1.27 ERA, the only time a pitcher with a losing record loses 20 and leads either league in ERA. Nolan Ryan will duplicate this in 1987 with the Houston Astros.

1913: In Chicago, Walter Johnson wins his 14th straight, a 2 - 1 decision over the White Sox. Johnson fans the side in the 8th inning, then with two on and two out in the 9th, strikes out Eddie Collins.

1914: In the second game of a twinbill at Washington, Detroit's Hooks Dauss and four Nats pitchers combine to plunk a record seven batters, a major-league record that will remain unmatched until 1971. Hooks hits three while Jim Shaw, Jack Bentley, Harry Harper, and Jim Stevens hit four. The Tigers win 11 - 0, and take the opener as well 3 - 1.

1916: Babe Ruth fires his 7th shutout of the year, stopping Detroit on three hits as Boston wins, 3 - 0.

1918: Ty Cobb makes a speech to the crowd between games of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds announcing he will enter military service and retire from baseball after the season. After serving overseas, Cobb will return to play ten more seasons.
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1922: The Browns collect 20 hits and score nine runs in the first two innings to stun the Red Sox, 13 - 2. Ken Williams extends his hitting streak to 28 games, but will be stopped here.

1930: New York's Fred Lindstrom has his 24-game hitting streak stopped as the Giants lose to the Cubs, 3 - 2. The game is tied 2-all in the bottom of the 9th, when the Cubs load the bases with two out. With the count 0 and 2, Danny Taylor the runner on 3rd, races safely home as surprised Giant reliever Joe Heving watches and then completes his deliberate windup with a wide pitch.

1938: Signed by the Tigers and beginning his pro career in 1938 with the Detroit Tigers,
Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter - the highest season total in organized ball this century - for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game. Virgil "Fire" Trucks will go on to win 177 games over a 17 years in the majors, spent mostly with the Detroit Tigers, and only have two losing seasons in the bigs. Becoming a two-time All-Star and throwing a pair of no-hitters during his career both in 1952.

1940: In the Tigers' 12 - 1 victory at Fenway Park, Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams pitches the last two innings against Detroit, allowing one run on three hits.
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1943: The Philadelphia Athletics drop their 20th game in a row, losing to Chicago, 6 - 5. This ties the American League record. They dodge the bullet in game two by scoring 8 runs in the 2nd inning to win, 8 - 1.

1945: Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from the Navy and attracts a home crowd of 46,477, who watch him strike out 12 and yield only four hits in a 4 - 2 win over Detroit's Hal Newhouser.

1948: The second 1948 East-West Game is held at Yankee Stadium. The East wins, 6-1, behind five-hit pitching by Max Manning, Dave Barnhill and Joe Black. 13 players in this contest would spend time in the major leaguers, a record for an East-West Game.

1951: New York Yankees rookie Mickey Mantle wears #7 for the first time. After being sent down to the minors for six weeks, Mickey returned to the team to find that the #6 he previously wore had been given to Bobby Brown.

1951: Against Cleveland's Early Wynn, Gene Woodling cracks his 3rd homer off the Tribe ace this year, as the Yanks win, 2 - 0. Woodling went deep on Wynn on June 24, July 24 and today.

1954: Robin Roberts is lifted in the seventh as the Braves finally knock out the Phillies ace, winning 5 - 1. Roberts had pitched 13 straight complete games against the Braves over three years, with a 12-1 record.

1957: The Dodgers use eight pitchers in one game, tying the National League record, in a 13 - 7 loss to first-place Milwaukee. Johnny Podres leaves after giving up three home runs in the fourth. Hank Aaron hits the first grand slam of his career.

1960: Happy Birthday to Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr born this day in Havre De Grace, Maryland.
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1961: Ageless Satchel Paige signs with Portland (Pacific Coast League). In 25 innings for the Beavers, he will have a 2.88 ERA.

1969: At St. Louis, Hank Aaron belts a 14th inning 3-run homer to give the Braves a 4 - 1 win over the Cards. There are no stolen bases in the game, though Bob Didier and Tim McCarver throw out six would-be thieves between them.

1971: Ernie Banks hits the final home run of his career as the Cubs beat the Reds, 5 - 4. Mr. Cub's 512th home run comes in the first inning off Jim McGlothlin.

1976: At Tiger Stadium Bill Freehan hits his 200th and final home run in a 12 - 7 loss to the White Sox. The Detroit catcher will finish his career with 100 homers hit at home and the other 100 homers hit on the road.
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1979: The Phillies retire Richie Ashburn's uniform number 1. His uniform number is the first to be retired at Veterans Stadium.
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1983: Jack Morris strikes out 9, on route to career high and AL-best 232 on the season in the Tigers 5 - 2 win over the rangers.

1989: After weeks of legal wrangling, Commissioner Bart Giamatti permanently bans Pete Rose from baseball for his alleged gambling on major league games. Although the 5-page document signed by both parties includes no formal findings, Giamatti says that he considers Rose's acceptance of the ban to be a no-contest plea to the charges.
Coach Tommy Helms is named Rose's interim replacement as Cincinnati manager.

1990: Alan Trammell hits 3 doubles and Cecil Fielder has 2 two-baggers, but the Tigers lose to Oakland 6-4.

1991: Skeeter Barnes hits a home run and an RBI single in the Tigers' 7-2 win over Seattle.
With the Blue Jays' one-run loss to the Yankees, the Tigers move into a tie for first place in the AL East for the first time since April.
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1999: Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. becomes only the 7th player to hit 40 homers in four consecutive seasons.

2004: Bud Selig, citing how disruptive a delay in the major league schedule would be on pennant races, says it is unlikely that major league players will ever be able to take part in the Olympics. The baseball commissioner hopes a "World Cup", which begins in 2006, will serve as a substitute for the Summer Games.

2006: Sean Casey is thrown out at first base from left field in a Tigers loss to the white sox.

2007: Carlos Guillen hits a walk-off home run in the 11th inning. The game started after 4-hour rain delay and ended at 3:30 a.m. with the Tigers winning 9 - 6 over the yankees.

2013: In the first-ever regular season rematch of All-Star Game starting pitchers, Max Scherzer hits an RBI double off Matt Harvey. Scherzer becomes the 3rd MLB pitcher to win 19 of his first 20 starts (Rube Marquard, 1912, & Roger Clemens, 2001) and Tigers win 3 - 0.

2014: Tigers set a franchise record with 60 hits in a four-game series, against the Twins. Rajai Davis and Victor Martinez go deep in a 13-4 win.

2017: 100-year-old George Mogill throws out the first pitch at Comerica Park.

2017: A game between the Tigers and Yankees at Comerica Park is marred by a series of brawls and eight ejections. Things start to get ugly in the 6th when New York pitcher Tommy Kahnle throws a pitch behind Miguel Cabrera's head. Kahnle gets ejected, as does manager Joe Girardi who comes out to protest, and C Austin Romine and Cabrera after they get into a heated argument that see the two exchange blows and end up wrestling on the ground as both benches empty.
After both teams score three runs in the 7th, Dellin Betances hits Detroit's James McCann with a fastball in the head, and Betances and coach Rob Thomson are both tossed. In the 8th, the Tigers' Alex Wilson plunks Todd Frazier and is ejected as well, along with manager Brad Ausmus.
When the dust settles, the Tigers win the game, 10 - 6. Five participants will receive suspensions as a result: 7 games for Cabrera for inciting the initial brawl, 4 games for Wilson, 1 for Ausmus, 4 games for Yankees player Gary Sanchez for throwing punches during the brawl, and 2 for Romine.
MLB's head of discipline and yankee's friend Joe Torre refuses to suspend Kahnle or Bettances for their headhunting tactics, nor does Torre suspend huge piece of shit Aaron Judge for his part in piling on Cabrera while on the ground and throwing punches to Cabrera's throat and back with Miggy's two herniated disc.

2019: The Detroit Tigers signed Matt Wotherspoon as a free agent.

2020: The Pittsburgh Pirates selected Carson Fulmer off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/secorfr01.shtml
Frank Secory 1940.

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Hal Woodeshick 1956, 1961.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bernato01.shtml
Tony Bernazard 1991.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Neil_Berry
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/berryne01.shtml
Neil Berry 1948-1952.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cristle01.shtml
Leo Cristante 1955.

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WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY.
Totally Tigers

Today, another opportunity for readers to discuss the hottest topics in a forum where thoughtful dialog and a variety of opinions are welcomed.

Let?s create some running conversational threads. And for those of you still going into offices, here?s a question to take with you ? or use via Zoom ? as you talk to your co-workers.

Here is today?s topic:

The Detroit Tigers are starting their search for a new GM. Owner Chris Ilitch indicated that the team made no progress at the MLB level this year, suggesting that the team needs someone who is experienced in the rebuilding process.

However, over the weekend, national stories came out that suggested the Tigers lack an organizational cohesiveness and process in which to effectively solve problems and improve the team. This was exemplified by the story of Robbie Grossman improving almost immediately by moving to another team.

An organization that easily fixed his issues that the Tigers had been unable to solve. Several experts in baseball have suggested that the departments within the Tigers Front Office don?t communicate or work together effectively.

If you were included in the GM search, which one of these 2 job qualifications is the most important one? Would you prioritize the need for rebuilding experience or do you believe that solving the work and communications problems within the organization is the most important?

Which one would you choose?
Which skill is the priority in choosing a new GM?

1. Experience in rebuilding.

2. Enhance flow of information and work between all departments.

VOTE
 
Game over Tigers beat the giants 6 - 1.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/matt-manning-strikes-out-8-over-6-scoreless-innings
With shutdown 6th, Manning evokes Tigers legends.
Righty makes yet another superb start in return from injury, sets new career high in K's.
Manning solid start 6 IP 5 hits 0 runs 0 walks 8 K's.
Tigers official site

Manning solid start 6 IP 5 hits 0 runs 0 walks 8 K's.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/giants-...nal,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=662916
Boxscore.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/giants-...,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=662916
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers Win Over the giants.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/8...-manning-logan-webb-willi-castro-victor-reyes
Tigers 6 - Giants 1: Explosive sixth supplements Manning?s masterpiece.
The young hurler dazzled and was rewarded for his efforts.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...ng-backs-another-gem-matt-manning/7884512001/
Tigers' six-run rampage in the fifth inning backs another gem from Matt Manning. Great pitched game by Manning.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...igers-score-san-francisco-giants/65418483007/
Detroit Tigers go from no-hit to 6-1 win over Giants with big 5th inning.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/08/tigers-stack-up-2-out-hits-to-beat-giants-6-1.html
Tigers stack up 2-out hits to beat Giants, 6-1.
Mlive
 
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August 25 in Tigers and mlb history:

1900: Criticism of administration in the National League continues. The Sporting News offers the new American League some editorial encouragement: "An organization opposed to the National League will be welcome because it will mean the elevation of the game if it is successful."

1902: Ban Johnson announces the American League's intention to have a New York team in 1903, with Clark Griffith as manager. The Baltimore franchise will be moved.

1909: Christy Mathewson stops the Pirates, 3 - 2, on five hits to notch his 20th victory of the season. It is the 7th season in a row in which Matty has hit 20 wins.

1913: Ty Cobb swipes home in the 5th inning to help the Tigers edge the Senators 6 - 5.

1915: The Red Sox win, 2 - 1 in 13 innings, to sweep the Tigers and solidify their hold on first place. Boston has now won seven straight and 19 of 21.

1921: With Cleveland waltzing to a 15 - 1 win over the Yankees, New York hurler Harry Harper, pitching in the 8th, plunks OF Charlie Jamieson in the ribs, Larry Gardner in the arm, and Steve O'Neill in the back. O'Neill throws the ball back at Harper, precipitating a bench-clearing brawl. New York OF Bob Meusel contributes four errors in the game. The Tribe takes over 1st place from the Yankees.

1922: In the first of a doubleheader before a sold-out Polo Grounds, the Browns beat the Yankees, 3 - 1, behind Urban Shocker. Waite Hoyt is the loser, but stops Ken Williams' hitting streak at 28 games. George Sisler hits in his 24th straight game. In game two, the Yankees jump to a 2 - 0 lead on Babe Ruth's 2-run triple, then extend it to 6 - 1 behind Joe Bush. The Browns close to 6 - 5, but that is it.

1922: In spite of a fourth-inning lead of 25 - 6, the Cubs need to hold on to defeat Philadelphia, 26 - 23, as the Phillies leave the bases loaded in the ninth. The total amount of runs, 49, is the major league mark for most tallies in one game.

1924: Walter Johnson hurls a seven-inning rain-shortened no-hitter against the Browns, winning by a score of 2 - 0.

1930: Tommy Bridges walks 12 St. Louis Browns, but Detroit still beats them 7 - 5.

1934: Schoolboy Rowe, Detroit's sensational rookie P, defeats the Senators 4 - 2, for his 16th win in a row tying the American League record held by Walter Johnson, Joe Wood, and Lefty Grove. Hank Greenberg's 2-run double in the ninth gives the Tigers the win in Washington.
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1937: Cleveland's Bob Feller strikes out 16 Red Sox, one less than his own American League record, in an 8 - 1 victory.

1937: The Babe Meets The Brown Bomber! Baseball legend Babe Ruth and boxing legend Joe Louis pose together in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey.
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1939: Red Rolfe scores for the Yankees in his 18th consecutive game, giving him a total of 30 runs.

1945: The Tigers' Joe Hoover will swipe only 19 bases in his career, but the most valuable one comes today. On the front end of a 3rd-inning double steal, Hoover steals home against the Browns for the game's only run.

1946: Rollie Fingers The HOF relief pitcher with the Athletics, Padres and Brewers was born in Ohio on this day.
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1952: Tiger Virgil Trucks (5-14) throws the second of his two no-hitters this season blanking the Yankees 1 - 0.
Phil Rizzuto's third inning at-bat is quickly scored as an error but is changed to a hit only to be reversed again in the sixth inning making the no-hitter a bit controversial. "Fire" Trucks also threw 4 no-hitters in the minors.
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1956: To make room for Enos Slaughter, the Yankees give Phil Rizzuto his unconditional release. Through the instigation of Ballantine Beer, Rizzuto will be in the announcing booth next year, replacing Jim Woods.

1957: Al Kaline is 4 for 4 with 2 home runs and 4 RBI in the Tigers 7 - 2 win over the yankees.

1959: The White Sox take out pennant insurance, sending Bob Sagers and Harry Simpson packing to Pittsburgh in exchange for veteran Ted Kluszewski. Klu will hit .297 during the season and a torrid .391 in the World Series.

1960: Boston's Vic Wertz's 2nd career grand slam, off Don Newcombe, as a pinch hitter ties the record set by Bill Skowron in 1957. Ted Williams hits his 516th home run in a 10 - 7 Boston win over Cleveland.

1961: Jim Bunning (15-9) allows just two hits while blanking the Senators 6 - 0, in a game called after eight innings because of rain. The win keeps the Tigers two games ahead of the Yankees.

1965: Moonlight Graham dies in Chisholm, MN. Graham played in one major league game, for the 1905 Giants, and did not get to bat. His character in W.P. Kinsella's Field of Dreams, later played by Burt Lancaster in the movie of the same name, will eventually make him a baseball household name.

1966: The owners approve a 55 percent raise in contributions to the players' pension fund. It will come from television, World Series, and All-Star Game money. Some money will also go to pay the salary of the Players' Association executive director.

1967: John Hiller throws his second straight complete game shutout in his second major league start, a 3 - 0 win over the royals.

1968: The Tigers ahead 5 - 0 fail to score with two on in the 4th inning when the Yanks bring in Rocky Colavito to pitch. The 35-year-old slugger retires Al Kaline and Willie Horton and tosses 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief to earn the win. In Rocky's only other appearance in 1958, he also faced Kaline, and the victory by a non-pitcher will be the last this century. Bill Robinson and Bobby Cox crash successive homers to tie the score and, after a walk, Rocky comes around to score the winning run. In the 8th Yankees reliever Lindy McDaniel ties the American League record for consecutive batters retired by setting down the first Tiger he faces, giving him 32 straight batters retired over four appearances. New York sweeps, winning 6 - 5 and then topping Mickey Lolich 5 - 4. The four losses in New York leaves the Tigers just five games ahead of the Orioles.

1978: Major League umpires stage a one-day strike in defiance of their contract, in order to gain recognition for their union as their bargaining agent with Major League Baseball. Semipro and amateur umps are pressed into service until a restraining order forces the strikers to return. The umpires will walk out again at the beginning of the 1979 season.

1979: Willie Horton has two homers, including his 9th career grand slam, to pace Seattle to an 8 - 4 win over Detroit. Champ Summers has a pair of homers for the Tigers.

1984: Tigers 5 - Angels 1. Jack Morris holds the Angels to one run over 8 innings for his 17th win. Ruppert Jones hits a 3-run home run, Lou Whitaker has 3 hits. Tigers are 85-45: they have gone 50-40 since their 35-5 start

1990: Cecil Fielder hits a home run over the left field roof of Tiger Stadium in the Tigers 14 - 4 pounding of the a's.
He would be the only Tiger ever to clear the left field roof.
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1991: The Detroit Tigers released John Moses.

1991: Lou Whitaker's RBI single in the bottom of the 9th scores Scott Livingstone for a walk-off win that keeps the Tigers in a tie for first place.
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2002: Al Kaline honored at Comerica Park for 50 years with the Tigers.
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2010: F?lix Hern?ndez of the Mariners beats the Red Sox in the second game of a doubleheader, fanning nine. That makes him the fourth-youngest hurler to 1,000 career strikeouts, following Bob Feller, Bert Blyleven and Dwight Gooden. David Ortiz is his 1,000th victim.

2012: The Red Sox and Dodgers complete a huge blockbuster deal, with Boston getting rid of $260 million in future salary by sending 1B Adrian Gonzalez, P Josh Beckett, OF Carl Crawford and IF Nick Punto to Los Angeles. In return, they receive 1B James Loney and four prospects: Ps Rubby De La Rosa and Allen Webster, IF Ivan DeJesus and OF/1B Jerry Sands. Both Crawford and De La Rosa are recovering from Tommy John surgery and will not play until next season. Gonzalez makes the biggest immediate impact, hitting a three-run homer in his first at-bat as a Dodger to key an 8 - 2 win over the Marlins. For their part, the Sox blow a 9 - 3 lead and lose to Kansas City, 10 - 9, in 12 innings, with none of the new acquisitions in the line-up.

2013: Miguel Cabrera hits a moon shot to the left field upper deck at Citi Field for his 42nd home run of the year in the Tigers 11 - 3 win over the mets.

2021: In the longest major league game since the introduction of the tiebreaker rule before the 2020 season, the Dodgers need 16 innings to defeat the Padres, 5 - 3, after almost six hours of playing time. After five scoreless extra frames in spite of the presence of a designated runner on second base every time, the Dodgers finally take a 3 - 1 lead in the top of the 15th, only to see Fernando Tatis Jr. tie it with his 35th homer of the year off Corey Knebel in the bottom of the inning, necessitating yet another inning. A.J. Pollock finally provides the margin of victory with a two-run homer off Daniel Camarena and the Padres fail to score against Shane Greene.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Justin_Upton
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/u/uptonju01.shtml
Justin Upton 2016-2017.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dischge01.shtml
George Disch 1905.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/donahre01.shtml
Red Donahue 1906.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Waite_Hoyt
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hoytwa01.shtml
Waite Hoyt 1930-1931.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brideji01.shtml
Jim Brideweser 1956.

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WIDE OPEN.
Totally Tigers

From now until he officially assumes his new position, we?re going to keep discussing the issues, concerns and priorities that a new GM must address. Today, let?s look at how he may handle the roster. Such as it is.

For simplicity?s sake, we?re going to focus on the positional players only, not the pitchers.

In a number of ways, this team has regressed in its roster. Injuries have certainly played a part but so have several prospects, highly touted, who couldn?t manage to stick in Detroit. And then there?s the constant shuffling of the same players back and forth to Toledo.

More than half of the current members have significantly under-performed. Some so much that we shouldn?t expect to see them in Detroit next year.

Chris Ilitch is expecting this team to improve at the MLB level which means that the new GM is going to have to be creative in trying to fix what is wrong.

Obviously, some of the repairs need to happen off the field, in the offices. But if we?re addressing the actual players, there?s only so much the GM will be able to do.

Before we get into the options he has, let?s take a rough look at the roster ahead of next year.
 
August 26 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: New York's Christy Mathewson allows just three hits in beating the Phils, 3 - 1.

1905: Ty Cobb makes his major league debut, as a late-inning defensive replacement in center field.

1909: Tigers complete a sweep of the Athletics to take a 2-game lead over them in the American League standings.
Detroit will lead the rest of the way to win its third straight pennant.

1911: Pittsburgh, playing without Honus Wagner, is no match for Christy Mathewson, as the Giants win, 6 - 2. Tommy Leach makes three errors behind Howie Camnitz. The Giants announce that for the first 11 playing days at the new Polo Grounds, the average attendance was 23,864.

1912: The Detroit Tigers purchased Willie Jensen from New Haven (Connecticut State).

1912: Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends under American League rules of the time. In the second game of a doubleheader against the Browns, he relieves Tom Hughes with one out and two on in the 7th inning of a 2 - 2 game. The two runners score on a Pete Compton single up the middle and the Nationals lose, 4 - 3. The two runs are charged to Johnson, not Hughes, giving him the defeat. Under the National League's rules, Johnson would not be charged with the loss. After the season, AL president Ban Johnson will change the rules to conform with the senior circuit, but he will deny he does it because of this game.

1915: Ty Cobb is honored at Navin Field on the 10th anniversary of his major league debut with bouquets of flowers and a standing ovation.
Cobb scores the winning run in the 12th inning against the first-place Red Sox.
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1923: Ty Cobb hits his 46th and final inside-the-park home run in the Tigers 5 - 4 win over the Senators.

1930: Hack Wilson has four RBIs to lead the Cubs over the Pirates, 7 - 5. Wilson cracks a 2-run single in the 5th, but then allows a Lloyd Waner liner to skip by him for an inside-the-park home run, and vows to atone. He hits his 44th home run, off young Larry French, breaking Chuck Klein's one-year-old National League record.

1933: Cleveland's Wes Ferrell stops Heinie Manush's hitting streak at 33 games, as Washington loses, 5 - 4 in 11 innings.

1934: Griffith Stadium are Schoolboy Rowe & Hank Greenberg celebrate Rowe?s 16th straight win to tie AL mark.
Down 2-1 in 9th, Hank?s 20th HR tied it then Rowe knocked in eventual GWer as Tigers beat Sens 4-2. Rowe would have his finest season (24-8) as Detroit took the AL flag.

1934 - The East wins the 1934 East-West Game, 1-0, behind the pitching of Slim Jones, Harry Kincannon and Satchel Paige. Jud Wilson drives in Cool Papa Bell in the 8th with the game's only run, off of the West's Bill Foster.

1939: A major league baseball game is telecast from Ebbets Field for the first time as the Reds play the Dodgers in a doubleheader. Red Barber broadcasts the game over W2XBS. The Dodgers take the first game, 6 - 2, and the Reds take the second, 5 - 1. Between the two games, a ceremony is held to honor Alexander Cartwright with a Hawaiian-themed celebration to mark the centennial anniversary of baseball.

1940: Bucky Walters pitches the first-place Reds to a 3 - 2 win over the lowly Phillies. Bucky wins his 18th, driving in two runs with a homer and single.

1950: Roy Campanella of the Dodgers hits three home runs in a 7 - 5 win over the Reds at Crosley Field.

1955: Vic Wertz of the Indians is diagnosed as having non-paralytic polio and is lost for the season. He will return next year.

1957: Yankee-killer Frank Lary stops New York as Detroit wins 5 - 2. RF Al Kaline is the hitting star with his 17th home run, a three run bomb to deep leftfield.

1959: It's "Al Smith Day" at Comiskey Park, with every fan named Smith, Schmidt, Smythe or Smithe admitted free and given a button stating "I'm a Smith and I'm for Al." Smith himself doesn't help, going hitless as the White Sox lose to Boston, 7 - 6. Bill Monbouquette is the winner.

1962: The Tigers win 5-3 on home runs by Bill Bruton, Norm Cash, and Steve Boros. Jim Bunning strikes out 7 in 6 innings and goes 3-for-3 with a double at the plate.

1966: Detroit's Earl Wilson, winner of six straight, hits an 8th-inning homer to give himself a 5 - 3 lead over New York. But the Yankees batting against reliever Hank Aguirre in the 9th, tally one run on a Clete Boyer single, and win it 6 - 5, when Mickey Mantle clouts a pinch homer just over a leaping Al Kaline in RF. The win still leaves New York (57-72) in last place.

1968: Tigers play their first ever game at Milwaukee County Stadium, against the White Sox. Pitcher Earl Wilson is hit by a pitch with the bases loaded for the go-ahead run and Tigers win 3 - 0.

1969: Al Kaline and Mickey Stanley each hit 2 homers and each drives in 3 RBI in the Tigers 9 - 6 win over the a's.

1972: The Tigers win on an Aurelio Rodriguez 2-run home run in the top of the 11th in Minnesota, the first of three straight 11-inning wins that will give them the lead in the AL East.
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1975: The Cleveland Indians selected Bob Reynolds off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

1978: The Detroit Tigers signed Howard Bailey as an amateur free agent.

1979: Steve Kemp leads off the bottom of the 10th inning with a walk-off home run, his second of the month, and the Tigers beat the mariners 4 - 3.

1980: At Milwaukee's County Stadium, George Brett strokes four singles and a double in 5 at-bats as the Royals edge the Brewers, 7 - 6. The Kansas City third baseman's 5 for 5 performance raises his league-leading batting average to .407

1984: In Anaheim, the Tigers use the long ball to beat the Angels 12 - 6. Kirk Gibson has two homers and four runs scored, Marty Castillo hits a homer and scores three times, and Chet Lemon belts the first grand slam of his career. Tommy John goes just 2 2/3 inning in losing to Milt Wilcox (15-7). Detroit leads the AL East by 12 games.
Tigers (86-45) remain 12 games ahead of the Blue Jays in the AL East, with a key series coming up in Toronto in early September.
Sparky: "If we win 14 of our next 31 games, it's a lock. We might even get by with 12". #Relive84
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1987: Paul Molitor's 39-game hitting streak comes to an end as he waits in the on-deck circle watching pinch hitter Rick Manning single home the winning run in a 1 - 0, 10-inning victory over the Indians.

1991: Lou Whitaker and Travis Fryman each have 3 hits in the Tigers' 5-1 win in Anaheim. Mark Leiter strikes out 4 and Dan Gakeler earns the 3-inning save. The win keeps Detroit in a tie for first place.
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1995: Atlanta P Greg Maddux ties a major league record by notching his 16th consecutive road win, a 7 - 2 victory over his former team, the Cubs. Maddux now shares the record with Denny McLain, Cal McLish, and Rich Dotson.

1996: The Detroit Tigers traded Gregg Olson to the Houston Astros for players to be named later. The Houston Astros sent Kevin Gallaher (minors) (August 27, 1996) and Pedro Santana (August 27, 1996) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

1999: The Seattle Mariners traded players to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Brian Hunter. The Seattle Mariners sent Andy Van Hekken (June 27, 1999) and Jerry Amador (minors) (August 26, 1999) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2015: Detroit's Justin Verlander comes up just short in his bid for a third career no-hitter, as he has to settle for a one-hit, 5 - 0 shutout after Chris Iannetta leads off the 9th for the Angels with a double that lands on the left field foul line. Verlander retires the final three batters in order to earn only his second win of the year, after missing the start of the season to an injury and suffering from a lack of run support all season. It is the second time he loses a no-hit bid in the 9th inning.
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2017: A memorial for Mark Fidrych is dedicated in his hometown of Northborough, Mass.
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2017: The Tigers take the lead on back-to-back home runs by Justin Upton and Miguel Cabrera and beat the White Sox 6-3.

2020: Following the lead of the NBA, three major league games are postponed today as teams elect not to play in the wake of protests over the latest police shooting of an African-American man, Jacob Blake, shot seven times in the back in Kenosha, WI a few days ago. Protests take place all over the sports world, with games also cancelled in the Women's National Basketball Association, Major League Soccer, and professional tennis. The Brewers' players are the first to announce their decision not to play, following the lead of the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA. Their opponents, the Reds, decide to join in, and when they hear of the decision, players on four west coast teams join the movement in solidarity. A number of players also decide to sit out games on an individual basis, including Jason Heyward, Dexter Fowler and Matt Kemp. In a statement, MLB expresses understanding and support for the players' position.

2022: Rookie Julio Rodriguez and the Mariners agree on a huge contract extension for 12 years with options for a possible further five years. The deal is worth a guaranteed $210 million at a minimum, and could reach up to $470 million, which would surpass the largest contract yet, Mike Trout's deal worth $426 million.

2022: The Detroit Tigers released Jacob Barnes.
2022: The Detroit Tigers released Chi Chi Gonzalez.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Chad_Kreuter
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kreutch01.shtml
Chad Kreuter 1992-1994.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sanchal03.shtml
Alex Sanchez 2003-2004.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/martelu01.shtml
Luis Marte 2011-2012.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/David_Price
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/priceda01.shtml
David Price 2014-2015.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Spencer_Torkelson
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/torkesp01.shtml
Spencer Torkelson 2022-present.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dick_Wakefield
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wakefdi01.shtml
Dick Wakefield 1941, 1943-1944, 1946-1949.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burnspe01.shtml
Pete Burnside 1959-1960.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rakowed01.shtml?redir
Ed Rakow 1964-1965.

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FIVE FOR FRIDAY.
Totally Tigers

There may be only 5+ weeks left in the season, but the Tigers are plenty busy despite their very disappointing year.

They are not waiting to move on issues until a new GM comes on board. Certain individuals are already guiding the direction of what needs to be done. In all cases, it?s evaluating players and situations.

A. J. Hinch revealed that he is helping Spencer Torkelson long distance with his hitting. And Sam Menzin, who is temporarily in charge, has already interviewed for the position, which is really considered a formality. But he?s also trying to make himself look as good as possible for the potential arrival of his new boss. His job is not guaranteed to survive a new regime, especially since he?s closely connected to Dave Dombrowksi and Al Avila.

So what are the 5 most important stories to follow from now until the end of the year? I?ve got my list??.

1.THE GM HUNT

2. MIGGY?S FUTURE

3. DRESS REHEARSALS

4. PROSPECT PIPELINE

5. TWEAKING TORKELSON
 
https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/08/4-takeaways-from-tigers-2023-schedule-release.html
4 takeaways from Tigers? 2023 schedule release.
Mlive

* Two home series and two road series (13 games) against American League Central division opponents: The Cleveland Guardians, Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals. This comprises 52 games, or about 32 percent of the total schedule.

* One series at home and one series on the road against the remaining 10 teams in the American League. This accounts for 65 games, or about 40 percent of the schedule.

* One series against every team in the National League. This will comprise 45 games, or 28 percent of the total.

So the schedule is still weighted toward divisional play, it?s just not weighted as heavily as it once was.

More in the story....
 
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